Luke 10:42

New English Translation

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the best part; it will not be taken away from her.”

Cross References

Psalm 119:111

I claim your rules as my permanent possession, for they give me joy.

Psalm 119:173

May your hand help me, for I choose to obey your precepts.

Psalm 119:30

I choose the path of faithfulness; I am committed to your regulations.

Psalm 142:5

I cry out to you, O Lord; I say, “You are my shelter, my security in the land of the living.”

Psalm 17:15

As for me, because I am innocent I will see your face; when I awake you will reveal yourself to me.

Psalm 27:4

I have asked the Lord for one thing – this is what I desire! I want to live in the Lord’s house all the days of my life, so I can gaze at the splendor of the Lord and contemplate in his temple.

Psalm 73:25

Whom do I have in heaven but you? I desire no one but you on earth.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.

Mark 8:36

For what benefit is it for a person to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his life?

Luke 10:39

She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he said.

Luke 11:1

Now Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he stopped, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

Luke 12:33

Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves purses that do not wear out – a treasure in heaven that never decreases, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

Luke 16:2

So he called the manager in and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in the account of your administration, because you can no longer be my manager.’

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.

Luke 18:22

When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

Luke 8:18

So listen carefully, for whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken from him.”

John 11:1

Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.

John 11:19

so many of the Jewish people of the region had come to Martha and Mary to console them over the loss of their brother.)

John 12:3

Then Mary took three quarters of a pound of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.)

John 17:3

Now this is eternal life – that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

John 4:14

But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”

John 5:24

“I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.

John 6:27

Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life – the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him.”

1 Corinthians 13:3

If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.

Galatians 5:6

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight – the only thing that matters is faith working through love.

Deuteronomy 30:19

Today I invoke heaven and earth as a witness against you that I have set life and death, blessing and curse, before you. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live!

Joshua 24:15

If you have no desire to worship the Lord, choose today whom you will worship, whether it be the gods whom your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But I and my family will worship the Lord!”

Joshua 24:22

Joshua said to the people, “Do you agree to be witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to worship the Lord?” They replied, “We are witnesses!”